EBV Protein Hijacks Cell Machinery to Trigger Cancer-Linked Pathway

A virus that quietly inhabits nearly every human being on Earth has long harbored a molecular secret — a protein that hijacks the cell's own survival machinery to drive it toward cancer. Researchers at Harvard Medical School have now mapped the precise choreography by which EBV's LMP1 protein dismantles a set of cellular guardians, releasing a cascade that immortalizes infected B cells and fuels lymphoma. The discovery matters not only as a chapter in the long story of how viruses reshape human biology, but because the mechanism is distinct enough from normal immune signaling to suggest a narr